Rob Van Dam Quotes

You're just taking punishment every day, getting hit all the time. That's something we're going to cut back on. I'll train hard but the sparring will be cut in half.

I train six days a week for four to five hours a day. I like to keep the same schedule when I'm in camp for every fight.

I wasn't instructed to do any special training for 'Hawkgirl,' but I had started boxing a few weeks prior and stuck with that for several months leading up to the start of production.

Actually, when I don't have a fight I'm training the hardest because I'm not worried about getting hurt.

If you're training for a fight, you're going to be pretty much, there's going to be days where you're hurting.

I'm not going to get tired in a 12 round boxing event, especially if I have time to prepare for it.

I thought boxing was stupid.

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

I'd always told people that I would have liked to pursue some sort of professional fight career. I don't know if I'm quite right for it, since I'm extremely prone to injury. I've been boxing for a couple years, and I've messed around with some Jiu-Jitsu, and I've always felt that there's such a passion in a real fighter's heart.

When I trained for 'Creed,' I had about a year in advance to know what I was doing before. So I lived like a fighter, you know? I went through the workout routine, the diet, training with real boxers, training with real trainers, did the whole thing.

I'd turn up to the gym early and just be there, waiting outside, knocking on the door. It was something I thought I was decent at. I enjoyed fighting; it's how I've always been.

You have to be able to take a punch. A strong neck is really important.

I had no idea if I could fight when I first started. My first four amateur fights, I had never even been punched in the face or trained of any kind.

When someone tells you a fighter's injured and they tell you to go after an injury, it really throws you off.

Going into a fight with Cyborg, you need to be as on point as possible.

With my style, training is very rigorous. You're toe-to-toe, getting beat on six days a week for five or six weeks leading to a fight. There's no fun, no glamour.

I do jiu-jitsu my whole life, so why would I try to stand and bang with Mike Tyson? I'm going to learn boxing in six months because my opponent is good in boxing? That makes no sense.

I know I can wrestle a lot longer than I can fight.

I've fought tactical fights in a gym, but never in a fight before.

Boxing never hurt me at all.

No matter how much cardio you do - running or biking or whatever - it's never the same as being in the ring.

I always had a fetish for fighting big peoples. My dad put me in the ring with much bigger guys. In my first fight, I gave the guy a 14-pound advantage.

When I'm training for a fight, I work out two or three times a day for five days a week.

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.